What exactly is ACT? It’s an insurance program for artists and crafters who sell products at trade shows. They claim to offer simple and affordable policies. Now they are turing to you guys and gals in the creative community to replace the video they currently have featured on their site.
Your video should promote the ACT program and all it’s benefits while being informative and professional. The video should fall into 1 of 3 categories:
The kid-friendly California citrus that West Coast shoppers have grown to love is bringing a bit of sunshine to the East Coast as Cuties California clementines and mandarins hit grocery stores in New York, Atlanta, Boston, and Philadelphia — making the fruit available coast-to-coast for the first time ever. To celebrate, Cuties has launched a new, interactive website created especially for kids and their proud parents. Cutieskids.com will showcase parent-uploaded videos and pictures featuring kids doing what they do best: having fun, acting silly, and, of course, being incredibly cute.
Parents can submit their cute kid videos to Cuties’ weekly contests, with a different theme every week. The highest vote-getter each week will win an Xbox 360 With Kinect, a $500 DonorsChoose.org gift card, and a coupon good for a 3-lb. or 5-lb. bag of Cuties California mandarins.
Best of all, the 18 weekly winners, along with two wild-card entries, will compete at the end of April for the CutiesKids grand prize — a $150,000 college scholarship and $5,000 DonorsChoose.org gift card.
Through the end of the contest, every approved video upload earns a $10 DonorsChoose.org gift card that can be donated to a school project of the entrant’s choice. Cuties has committed up to $100,000 to the charity gift card giveaway.
18+ (Children appearing must be 12-), 60 seconds-, Deadline: January 22nd 2012
Theatrics.com invites you to take part in the first-ever Mass Participation TV (MPTV) talent contest. Show off your skills to celebrity judge Jonathan Frakes as you compete to win $10,000 and a trip for you and a really lucky friend to Hollywood.
The Beckinfield Little Theater (AKA The BLT) has been boarded up for over 40 years but it is about to reopen in grand style with The Legends of Beckinfield, an original play chronicling the mysterious origins of the town. The BLT has reached out to renowned director Dylan Marks (played by Jonathan Frakes) to travel to Beckinfield to direct the production. Residents of Beckinfield (here’s where you come in) are submitting online audition videos to try and land a part.
You must choose from a provided script, create your video, and publish it for your chance to win $10,000 and a trip to Hollywood, CA!
13+, 3 minutes-, Deadline: January 21st 2012
Let’s get the new year off to a healthy start! The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology invites you to create a short, compelling video sharing one New Year’s resolution for improving your health or the health of a loved one, and how you will use technology to achieve your resolution.
They encourage you to create videos that are creative, inspiring and instructive. Share a resolution that others can relate to, and demonstrate how technology will make it easier to achieve. Your resolution can be anything health related, such as quitting smoking or drinking, eating healthier, losing weight, reducing stress, or managing a chronic condition. Videos must show how you will use information technology to achieve your resolution and how you plan to maintain it. Get creative!
The grand prize winner will receive $2,000 plus another $2,500 going to runner up entries. Visit the contest page below and get filming!
18+, 2 minutes-, Deadline: February 16th 2012
With all the different forms of current communication (talk, text, Facebook, Skype, Twitter, etc.), it’s only natural that miscommuncations are an everyday occurrence. AT&T wants filmic stories that capture various moments of communication as they occur around important moments and the tensions and triumphs that arise as a result.
Maybe you texted some amazing news to a loved one but it got auto-corrected into something terribly wrong? Maybe sending a picture message at the right time made someones day. Whatever it is, your entry should meet the following guideline:
The tone should be humorous, endearing, emotional, and revealing. Find a way to tell a human story through the technology that we all share. One lucky winner will receive $8,000 and a trip for 2 to Barcelona with 3 nights of hotel accommodation. We love the sound of that!
18+, 60-90 seconds, Deadline: February 6th 2012
LifeStrength, maker of proprietary Anion infused body wear (look it up), has announced a video contest with a cool theme and some even cooler prizes.
You are invited to create a short video under the theme of “It Could Happen.”
While this leaves to possibilities wide open, we know you guys will come up with some great stuff. We’ve also attached their contest promo video for what may be of some inspiration. The grand prize winner stands to take home a KHS XC204 Mountain Bike package worth over $2,000! Good luck!
13+, 5-60 seconds, Deadline: February 29th 2012
Teaching adults stuff you already know is the motto of Net Connectors so they are challenging you to create a video that show people…how to send a text message. Who doesn’t know how to send a text message!? Well, this may be second nature to us tech savvy filmmakers, but maybe not so much for our grandparents or even parents.
The overall goal is to make your video easy to understand and informative. Teaching a technically challenged individual something may be harder than it seems. If, however, you are successful and are selected as the winner, you will take home a brand new iPod Nano and be entered to win an iPad 2!
13-23, 60 seconds-, Deadline: January 31st 2012
As we get close to Super Bowl 46, we also get close to finding out the winners from this years “Crash the Super Bowl” video contest. Of course the big change to this years outcome is…YOU! You get to vote for your favorite. It doesn’t get any cooler than that, does it? Well yes! Because for every 100,000 votes the entries receive, CTSB is giving away $10,000 to one lucky voter. So grab a bag of Doritos and check out the finalists below before casting your ballot. Who has what it takes to make it to the Super Bowl?
HOT WILD GIRLS by Brad Scott
SLING BABY by Kevin Wilson
BIRD OF PREY by Joby Harris
MAN’S BEST FRIEND by Jonathan Friedman
DOG PARK by Tyler Dixon
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